| Show incomparable col speaks in glowing terms of what he saw at didies fruit exhibit and festival salt lake tribune the fruit exhibit at st george last week was not only the finest display of fruit seen in utah but it was among the best displays ever seen in the country the escaler was col E W and he was talking about the display or exhibition of fruit by the commercial club of st george on thursday and friday last 1 I have seen exhibits continued the colonel but none that can be compared to this one in any particular there was every kind of fruit except the tropical and included in the exhibit were lemons grown in the open at st george if there was a railroad into that region so tint the fruit could be shipped out by rail it would do more to advertise the resources from a horticultural standpoint of that section of utah than anything else eliat probably could be done st george is sixty five miles from a railroad it is therefore practically impossible to ship fruit out by wagon the jolting and jamming over the hard road between st george and modena would spoil it for market at the exhibit there were more than varieties of grapes and they were such grapes as can be grown nowhere else in ahe united states there were bunches or clusters of 1 grapes that were over twelve inches in length and the most delicious grapes that you can imagine then the pears and peaches and and apples and figs and nuts well you never saw anything like them there were almonds in plenty but the english walnuts hid not matured enough to make an exhibit then there were ripe strawberries great big delicious berries grown in tho open and in melons well were watermelons water melons in the exhibit that were two feet in length an the most luscious melons you there were cantaloupes that lay away over tho famous rocky ford melons of colorado in eliat they were as sweet as sugar in evaporated fruits you never saw a finer display the fact is that one cannot find adjectives enough to express his view of the exhibit could all salt lake have been there there would have been plenty for all the perfection to which fruit and melons and vegetables are grown there is due to the southern experiment station near st george the work done at tins station by the experts from the agricultural college cannot bo overestimated tests have been made of grapes and peaches and prunes and plums of pears and quinces and apricots and cherries and persimmons apples and figs in fruits and of almonds pecans walnuts and chestnuts and the result has been that the fruit and nut growers profit on eighth page A staure deal continued from page ed until the acme in the growth of ruit and nuts has been readied one cannot speak too highly of the products of the vine and of alie tree which were shown at tins cx hy the st george commercial handall clu of which were grown in eliat immediate vicinity and of the hospitality shown I 1 have ecca anything like it the people of st george had made preparations to feed 2000 people and when on friday evening the people were beatch about the tables winch biad been spread in the tabernacle square 1400 was the number and how they did feast the tables were so arranged eliat at each end there was stationed ladies cornet band one of which was from st george the other from washington in the center was a raised platform aind on tins platform the exercises were held and ocal music rendered then there w electric lights in profusion making it winch one will never forget every section of washington county was and there were many people from various parts of southern utah among the speakers w apostles laman and ivins J ed taylor of the state board of agriculture several local people and myself be the speeches echea there was vocal and instrumental music one peculiar thing about st george is that GO per cent of the population is within the school age arrangements arc now under way for the election of a stake academy I 1 tell you eliat the school tax levied in the county ranges from four to twenty mills it means that great progress is being made of course the ride from modena to st george 13 a long one and that portion of the old volcanic region through which the highway runs is most desolate etchen ono drops down into the valley of the virgin ner and sees what this valley produces he is compensated a thousand fold for his journey it waa my first gnp into that section of the state but I 1 am going again I 1 want to aee of washington county of southern utah |
